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Kirkandrews
The former station in 2002
General information
Location	Kirkandrews-on-Eden, Cumberland England
Coordinates	54°55′00″N 3°00′44″W / 54.9166°N 3.0121°W / 54.9166; -3.0121
Grid reference	NY352584
Platforms	1
Other information
Status	Disused
History
Original company	Port Carlisle Railway
Pre-grouping	North British Railway
Post-grouping	London and North Eastern Railway
Key dates
1854	Opened
7 September 1964	Closed
Location KirkandrewsLocation in present-day Cumbria, EnglandShow map of CumbriaKirkandrewsLocation in the former City of Carlisle district, CumbriaShow map of the former City of Carlisle district

v t e Carlisle and Silloth Bay Railway
Overview Locale Cumbria Dates of operation 1854–1964 Predecessor Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway Successor NBR Technical Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Legend
Silloth Battery Extension Silloth Convalescent Home Silloth Docks and Pier Silloth Causewayhead Blackdyke Halt Abbey Town Solway Junction Railway southbound Sleightholme Abbey Junction Solway Junction Railway northbound Kirkbride New Dykes Brow Port Carlisle Glasson Drumburgh Burgh-by-Sands Kirkandrews Waverley Line northbound Port Carlisle Junction Carlisle Canal Carlisle West Coast Main Line southbound│northbound

Kirkandrews railway station was near Kirkandrews-on-Eden, Cumberland (now Cumbria), England. It was on the Port Carlisle Railway branch, and later part of the Silloth branch. The station served the village and the rural district. Kirkandrews closed on 7 September 1964; with the line to Silloth as part of the Beeching cuts.The station building survives as a private dwelling.

History

In 1819, a port was constructed at Port Carlisle and in 1821, the Carlisle Navigation Canal was built to take goods to Carlisle. The canal was closed in 1853, when the Port Carlisle Railway Company filled in part of it to construct a railway that began passenger service in 1854. However, the railway discontinued passenger service two years later, when the Carlisle & Silloth Bay Railway & Dock Company opened a new line to Silloth, using the Port Carlisle Branch as far as Drumburgh.

The North British Railway leased the line from 1862, it was absorbed by them in 1880, and then taken over by the London and North Eastern Railway in 1923.

Infrastructure

The station sat close to the village in the cut of the old canal; it had a single platform, and a shelter. The branch ran close to the course of Hadrian's Wall. A substantial station building was present. A large seed warehouse was located at the station. In common with other stations on the line, it had its name picked out in sea shells on a raised area opposite the station building.

References

Notes

1. Hammond 2015, p. 417.
2. Biddle 1981, p. 66.
3. Solway Plain - Past and Present Archived 18 May 2016 at the Wayback Machine Retrieved : 2012-08-21
4. Cumbria Railways Retrieved : 2012-08-21
5. ^ Ramshaw 1997, p. 1.
6. ^ Cumbria Railway Retrieved : 2012-08-21
7. White 1984.

Sources

• Biddle, Gordon (1981). Railway Stations in the North West. Clapham, North Yorkshire: Dalesman Books. ISBN 978-0-85206-644-7.
• Hammond, John M. (August 2015). Peascod, Michael (ed.). "The Beeching Plan and the Closure of the Carlisle-Silloth Branch". Cumbrian Railways. 11 (11). Pinner: Cumbrian Railways Association. ISSN 1466-6812.
• Ramshaw, David (1997). The Carlisle Navigation Canal, 1821-53. Carlisle: P3 Publications. ISBN 978-0-9522098-5-0.
• White, Stephen (1984). Solway Steam. The Story of the Silloth and Port Carlisle Railways 1854-1964. Carlisle: Carel Press. ISBN 978-0-9509096-1-5.

External links

• Kirkandrews station Cumbria Gazetteer
• Kirkandrews station Deborah Irwin
• Kirkandrews station Cumbria Railways
• The station on an Edwardian 6" OS map National Library of Scotland
• The station and line Rail Maps Online
• The station and line, with mileages Railway Codes
• Cumbria Gazetteer

• Disused railway stations in Cumbria
• Former North British Railway stations
• Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1854
• Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964
• Beeching closures in England
• Beaumont, Cumbria